We still know microplastics are bad because deliberately introducing them to lab animals produces all sorts of bad stuff. Our samples might be skewed towards showing more of them in more places than there actually are, so perhaps things are not quite as bad yet. On the other hand, the same bias could mean that micro plastics becomes a problem at smaller quantities than previously thought.

What you need to fight this is multiple sets of credentials that unlock multiple accounts and folders. Use one pin to unlock a clean account with clean social media profiles. Another set to get in provate comms and files. Yet another to open the clean one while deleting personal in the background. It might not work against a professional forensics team, but it'll make any attempts to force people to incriminate themselves expensive. And before you ask, totalitarian government control is spreading and I worry about it more than "think of the children".

I think your analysis is starting from a solid point, but i still worry there is a lot of room for things to go wrong. LLM oriented code might not have a 1:1 human readable equivalent. There are likely to be subtle differences and assumptions lost in translation. LLM code might also evolve faster, turning it into an arms race to keep up.

You're right, UK has some of the most expensive electricity around, at an average price of 25c per kWh. And that is subsidised by a standing charge of 65c a day per household, meaning it disproportionally affects those who try to be economical.

Because we both know that someone somewhere is absolutely doing it already. And perhaps the responsible thing is to point out the problem and hope LLM providers might prepare a canned response for the future.

I think this is because making actual bitcoin transactions is too expensive. Instead, the exchange keeps all of it in one wallet and makes a note of who has how much in a spreadsheet. This way no actual transactions need to take place until someone withdraws the coins into their own wallet.

Have you seen the RAM prices lately?

AI is also burning the bridges behind it. Authoritative sources are losing revenue from visitors and keep getting hit by crawlers. It's enshittification all the way down.

Oh, I don't think AI getting there is likely. But I certainly know that most people won't be able to tell what the problem is. They put a movie on in the background and complain it's hard to follow the plot while they browse their phone.

I don't think we'll get to the point where AI is quite good enough. Not for the top tier work, although there's certainly plenty of phoned in performances out there too. There is a lot more that a good actor brings to the role than a glorified text to speech. Emotion, nuance, energy, natural reactions. Celebrities also matter, whether you like that or not. Actor names sell movie tickets, for example. I think where this is all heading towards real actors quitting the field and we'll just have a shittier experience going forward. Recycled emotionless slop.

If AI generated text in-game floats your boat, there might be a market for it. My problem is that I feel too much of the text in-game is already subpar filler written to tick a box somewhere. Playing FF16 here and honestly wish the side quests would just skip the generic fetch quest drivel. Even a lot of the main story text is formulaic and could've been written with a prompt.

Nah, as a gamer, I feel this is legit. The audience is already sensitive to seeing cut corners, filler content, misleading trailers, lack of QA and optimisation, derivative content designed by a commity, etc. AI is just a big, easy red flag to point to. We already have slop. If studios can't afford to put time and effort into images, text, voices, it's pretty obvious they'll try to cut playtest, iteration, innovation. And the more slop we have, the harder it is to notice something new and interesting.

Yeah, 15-20 minutes is the time most need just to get into flow and put some actual productivity in. It's different when you've got 16 conversations going and need to look away from screen for two minutes to clear your head though.

Helping me order takeaway food. All I ever wanted are decent pictures of what I'm ordering. Can we get that first?

A lot of the time when you try to get "professionals" translate stuff, you get machine translation anyway. Had been a problem for more than a decade. It's all pretranslation and translation memory with the CAT tools. Even with the same agencies you can get different quality results from one day to the next. And I don't even blame them. Most stuff that gets translated is boring and repetitive. It makes complete sense to do a first quick pass with a machine and then do a lot of QA and polish to make it good. Style guides, character profiles, plot notes. I think it's all mostly to skip the step where you pay someone a lot to pretend to do translation by hand. Copyright might be an interesting angle though. I believe book translations run a separate copyright from the original. People got in trouble over using a still copyrighted translation, assuming it's fine because original is public domain. What machine translation does here might be interesting. Certainly no less "transformative" than all the AI companies stealing content to train their models.